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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 1979
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1978
Frank T Check, Jr, Orange, CT (US);
Alton B Eckert, Jr, Norwalk, CT (US);
Joseph R Warren, Stamford, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A system for automatically setting a postage meter as a function of package weight and destination includes a scale mechanism for generating weight-representing signals. The package postage can be established by converting the destination zip code to a destination zone. The destination zone used in retrieving a minimum postage and incremental postage amounts is applicable for that zone from data storage. The weight-representing signal is successively decremented and the postage amounts synchronously incremented until a signal checking circuit establishes that the decremented weight-representing signal is equal to zero.